Plug the USB into the EeePC and whilst rebooting hold the Escape key
down to get into the BIOS then TAB to select to boot from the
USB. This will boot into the Ubuntu-Eee installer. The options chosen:
Language: English; Location: Sydney; Keyboard: USA, Partition: Guided
resize sda into 20GB for MS/Windows and 20GB for Ubuntu.

The resizing ended up with: ``Resize operation failure. An error
occurred while the changes to the storage devices. The resize
operation has been aborted.'' A bit of exploration indicates that the
MS/Windows NTFS journal is not in a proper state. So restart in
MS/Windows and exit from it cleanly, to make sure all is okay. It
might have got into that state because I had upgraded the BIOS (is
that relevant) and on booting I wasn't seeing the BIOS message about
tapping F2 or ESC. I might have interrupted a startup one time try to
get into the BIOS! Tapping F2 when turning it on seems to get into the
BIOS, but it was hit and miss between F2/TAB/ESC! Got there eventually
and this time was able to resize the partition.

Back to the installation. The resizing worked! User: gjw; Hostname:
monju; Migrate MS/Windows: None; Install took about 10 minutes;
Restart Now and screen went black and stayed that way!!! Had to power
cycle with the power button for 10 seconds. Restart and Grub kicked in
and booted Ubuntu! Note that this install defaults to the nice (though
not all agree) and very easy to use Netbook Remix user interface.

The guided partition, with the resizing, ended up with:

/dev/sda1

20G

(/c)

/dev/sda2

35G

(/home)

/dev/sda5

20G

/

/dev/sda6

swap

Using the partition manager I formatted /dev/sda2 as ext3 and mount
that as /home (with an entry in /etc/fstab) and mount /dev/sda1 as /c,
the MS/Windows C drive.